GB-Odiamm Virtual Reconstruction of the Worcester Fragments ('Worcester 1' , the 'motet book') Virtual

DIAMM Virtual Manuscript Archive, Oxford, England

Reconstruction of dispersed fragments from more than one archive: 14th century: c.1300

This is a virtual reconstruction assembled from selected pages of other physical sources. Its pages and inventory are independent snapshots with retained provenance links.
Archive DIAMM Virtual Manuscript Archive, Oxford, England (GB-Odiamm)
Shelfmark Virtual Reconstruction of the Worcester Fragments ('Worcester 1' , the 'motet book')
Surface Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Notations
  • English mensural
Relationships
Provenance
  • England
Contents Contains 67 compositions, 67 are anonymous.
General Description

A reconstruction of a manuscript which was subsequently re-used as flyleaves in a number of Worcester manuscripts, and now survives as a set of fragments, mostly polyphonic, in several different collections. Fragments from the collections Worcester Add. 68, Bodleian MS. Lat. liturg. d. 20 and British Library Add. MS 25031 - qqv. - form parts of this reconstruction.

The original ms may have had 140 or more folios; fragments remain of 30 or more. The original position of several of the fragments (notably those collected as Add. 68 fr. xiii & xl) cannot be determined. It was probably broken up in the 1520s; fragments have been recovered from volumes bound c. 1527-31, most surviving in Worcester Cathedral.

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Notation

longs and breves, and the lozenge-shaped notes of the so-called English mensural notation

DIAMM, 2020
Ruling

9-12 red or brown five-line staves per page

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Foliation

Original foliations in Roman numerals. DIAMM foliation for this virtual manuscript converts these to Arabic numbers.

DIAMM, 2020
Decoration

red-blue initials

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DIAMM Note

For other information, bibliography, etc see the related sources.

DIAMM, 2020

(7v) GB-WOc Add. 68, fr. x, 2v

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